And now for the current situation…

Posted on December 4, 2008 by fang64.
Categories: News.

Well it seems that I have neglected this blog again, while trying to keep things maintained in college. I again hope that I can provide more updates in the next few weeks on projects that I have going on. Currently, I am drowning in Calculus and Physics work trying to keep up and maintain the grade in those classes. I haven’t completely thrown every project to stop status as things are going on in the world regardless of whether I have time for them or not.

First bit of news, I’d like to point out the Open Pandora Project (http://www.openpandora.org) has faced some delays. I was expecting it, but I was hoping to have a Pandora as a Nokia N800 replacement, at least before 2009. I don’t think that’ll happen unless a miracle occurs, especially with the issues with limited components particularly the screens. I am playing around a bit with Angstrom OS (http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/) and I’ve setup a development environment. I have a friend who wants to create a game for the platform, depending on how complex it is I’ll work on it. The small MMO he was fiddling with for PC might be a good option for it. I’ll post more if it comes up as a real project.

What has gotten some of my attention lately is Left4Dead, with its great use of AI and particularly with the way it has multiple layers of Intelligence. It has potential for modification through Sourcemod (http://www.sourcemod.net) and along with the other source games. I am currently picking up Source Pawn language used in Sourcemod. It’s actually quite easy to use and has some similarities with C and SMALL. I am assisting a group of friends with their servers to create a system specific to their servers and maybe later extending it out to the Sourcemod community if the system works well. If not I’ll probably sweep it under a rug, I don’t particularly like to be embarassed by poorly designed tools.

The car project has made a bit of progress but not much as I have not had time to finish cutting the steel to create the frame. I also am in need of a welder capable of putting the frame together since I’ve found out that a 110 Wire welder can’t penetrate the metal to provide the strength a car chassis would need to stay together. I don’t intend to make this vehicle a failure; I want it to go together the right way.